* Kotomi from ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' insists on being addressed with "Kotomi-chan" and won't even register other forms of address. This makes most people somewhat uncomfortable, as it is a rather intimate form of address.
** In the same show, Fuko's carvings are starfish, not stars.
* Same thing in ''TenchiMuyo'': "No! I'm not gonna help you unless you call me Little Washu!" ("Washu-chan" in the Japanese version).
** Greatly exaggerated in the minds of fans. Washu did this ''once'' in ''Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki,'' and six episodes later it came back to bite her on the butt when she discovered that Mihoshi had included it in her report. That hasn't stopped fanfic writers using it to death.
* Suzuka from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' somewhat fits this trope during his first appearance in the Dark Tournament. He insists on being called "The Beautiful Suzuka" and promises that anyone who doesn't refer to him as such will not live to repeat their mistake. When the foxgirl announcer Koto just calls him Suzuka, he shows his annoyance by hurling a razor sharp playing card at her head. She manages to duck as the card skewers the demon sitting behind her, scaring her enough to use Suzuka's title and constantly compliment him and his techniques during the match. And even once [[CallBack a whole two sagas later]].
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''
** Lina Inverse insists on referring to Philionel El Di Saillune as the "First Royal Successor". Don't call him "Prince" in front of her. Just don't. In the novels, this is partly because, thanks to [[RoyallyScrewedUp some succession issues with Saillune's royal family]], this is his actual title. He really isn't a prince, even if he is the current ruler's son.
** Not to mention the number of people Lina has to, ahem, correct about the various titles she's usually introduced with. Generally by the assembly of local banditry.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Butch from the anime series constantly corrects those who get his name wrong. Everyone has mistaken his name for either "Biff", "Bill", "Bob", "Hutch", "Butcher", "Patch", "Botch", or "Chuck". Whenever his partner, Cassidy, gets it right, he accidentally corrects her with the wrong name.
** They also get orders from Dr. Nanba, who has the exact same problem as Butch.
** Brandon demands that he be called "Brandon", not "Mister".
** In ''Queen of the Serpentine'', one of Lucy's apprentices insists that Lucy be addressed as "Pike Queen Lucy".
* Of course, the protagonist of Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple would ''never'' run away from a fight. He may occasionally make a strategic withdrawl in order to stay alive, but run away? Never!
* ''GunXSword'': "Carul-san..." "Carmen, Carmen, Carmen 99!"
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean "It's CAPTAIN Hitsugaya!"]]
* Manjyoume from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has to constantly correct anyone who doesn't use honorifics when saying his name with "Manjyoume san da!" (translation: "That's ''Mr.'' Manjyoume to you!"). Unfortunately for him, everyone mistakes this as "Manjyoume sandaa", instead ("sandaa" being the Japanese pronunciation to the English world "thunder"). While he hasn't stopped with the correcting, he ''has'' embraced the mistake as part of his personal motto. In the dub, Manjyoume's counterpart Chazz Princeton does the same thing, insisting everyone call him "''The'' Chazz". It just doesn't work as well.
** Dr. Chronos was like this too. In the first season, he insisted on being called ''Doctor'' Chronos to anyone who addressed him otherwise. In the second season, he became Chancellor of the school, and while students managed to address him as "doctor" now, he insisted on being called by his new title. (By the fourth season, when he became Vice Chancellor, the students had much more respect for him, and this wasn't an issue anymore.)
* Sealand of ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' says, "Call me Sea-kun!" He also once requested, [[CheerfulChild bizarrely enough]], to be called "senpai".
** "THIS IS WAR, AND YOU'RE WEARING A CAPE!" "It's a cloak, non?" from [[GagDub the dub.]]
* Hisa Takei of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' insists that she is the president, not of the student council, but the student ''congress''.
* Albireo Imma of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' likes his tournament alias of "Ku:Nel Sanders" so much that he requests everyone to call him by that name and will pretend to ignore you if you call him by his original name.
* ''SpiceAndWolf'': By the way, did you know that Holo is wise?
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''
** Sasuke corrects Deidara that his jutsu is called "Chidori", not "Raikiri" (Lightning Blade). "Chidori" is the formal jutsu name, and "Raikiri" is the nickname given to Kakashi's version.
** On a number of occasions, Shikamaru and Shikaku corrected their opponents by insisting that their technique is called Shadow Imitation Technique (Kagemane no Jutsu) and not Shadow Bind Technique (Kage Shibari no Jutsu). The Shadow Imitation Technique is more refined version of the older Shadow Bind.
* In ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha A's'', Zafira insists that Arf refer to him as a "guardian beast" rather than as a familiar.
-->'''Arf:''' It's the same damn thing!
** Given that the Belkan magic system's terminology differs from the more common Mid-Childa system in many ways ("knights" instead of "mages"; "knight armor" instead of "barrier jackets"), Arf is probably correct that there's no actual difference between a guardian beast and a familiar.
* Kei and Yuri's codename is "LovelyAngels". Don't ever call them the LightNovel/DirtyPair, you jerk!
* ''ButterfliesFlowers'': Domoto insists that Choko address him as "Director Domoto ♥" when on the job. [[SayItWithHearts Don't forget the heart]].
* ''Anime/AngelBeats''
** "Call me Christ!"
** And inverted with "I'm not an angel".
* Maico in ''AndroidAnnouncerMaico2010'' tells us she's "not a robot -- I'm an android."
** Wait, how can a SHE be an android?
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Sadi-chan insists on being referred to as such ("Miss Sadie" in the Viz manga)
** [[spoiler:In the Punk Hazard arc, the corrupt Vice-Admiral Vergo demands that Law call him "Vergo-san," a form of respect due to their shared past and Vergo's higher position in Doflamingo's empire, and beats the crap out of him whenever he doesn't. Ironically, the one time Law ''does'' call him "Vergo-san" is when he cuts him in half after regaining his heart.]]
* Katsura constantly corrects Gintoki, who calls him "Zura" in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}''. The joke evolves over the series into silly puns, so when someone calls him anything other than his real name, Katsura says "Not X, it's Katsura!" He sometimes changes it to "Not Zura, it's X" if he's wearing a disguise though.
* Assistant chief security maid Yashima Sanae in ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai: La Vérité''. In Japan "Sanae" is normally a first name, so people often call her Sanae instead of Yashima. She always corrects them when they do so, telling them that Yashima is her first name and Sanae is her last name.
* Played with and Discussed in ''Manga/FairyTail'' The Trimens call Ichiya Nii-san, Master, etc., and is lampshaded a few times
-->"They're not very consistent, are they."
* Maiza Avaro and Firo Prochainezo of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' often remind other characters that the particular type of criminal sydicate of Italian origin to which they belong is ''not'' TheMafia, but the ''Camorra''.
* [[HalfHumanHybrid Rin]] of ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' is ''not'' a [[BerserkButton demon.]]
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', former Warrant Officer Vato Falman has to remind people that he's a Second Lieutenant from the Briggs arc onwards.
** [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Greed]]'s [[MoralityPet henchmen]] aren't his friends. They're his possessions.
* DragonBallZ has Vegeta insisting on calling Goku by his Saiyan birth name of Kakarot. When he calls Goku by his Earth name, it's a sign he's NotHimself.
* A very poignant use crops up a lot in ''Anime/CodeGeass''; the racist, darwinist Britannians call those who were once Japanese "Elevens", since Japan was redesignated "Area 11" after the Britannians invaded, as a way of oppressing the Japanese; They go as far as to illegalise the use of the terms "Japan" and "Japanese". It is frequently done by two characters:
--> '''[[ActionGirl Kouzuki Kallen]]:''' "We're not Elevens, we're Japanese!"
--> '''[[PsychoLesbian Nina Einstein]]:''' "Stop saying "Japanese"! You're Elevens!"
* In the BL manga ''{{Manga/FAKE}}'', whenever Dee gets called gay, he corrects the person that he is in fact [[BiTheWay bisexual]].
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